stampeding

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verb become, make afraid or distressed

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Word Origin & History

1828, from Mexican Spanish estampida, from Spanish, "an uproar," from estamper "to stamp, press, pound," from the same Germanic root that yielded English stamp (v.). The political sense is first recorded 1846. As the name of an annual exhibition of cowboy skills in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, it is attested from 1912.

Example Sentences for stampeding

The stampeding of the herd on such a night is almost a relief.

Well, I reckon you know all about his son's stampeding with that girl last spring?

It was only by the most careful handling that they were able to keep their herds from stampeding.

Dan could have distanced the cattle, even when they were stampeding.

The stampeding herd had passed her, and she was still alive.

We dashed into the corn, and raced like mad to head the stampeding beasts.

We could not help the Injuns stampeding the lot, master, time after time.

The leaders of the stampeding herd had come dangerously close.

In this shape, as long as yoke and bows held, there was no danger of stampeding.

For a stampeding horse on a two-foot trail is a dangerous thing.

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